If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
More William Blake Quotes
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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